The Tea Cult is a cozy, slow-paced, six-seat tea room where cultural heritage, story, sensory experience, modern art, and very good tea are deliberately tangled together.
This is not a place designed for efficiency. It is a place designed for attention. You may arrive for tea. You may stay for the stories. You may leave thinking about something entirely different.
“With intention, tea can guide us into a unique mental space.”
>> READ: THE KEY TO THE SACRED PLACE <<| LOCATION | #23 — 1420 9 Ave SE Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| SUNDAY | 12:00 pm — 8:00 pm |
| MONDAY | 4:00 pm — 9:00 pm |
| TUESDAY | 4:00 pm — 9:00 pm |
| WED–SAT | CLOSED |
There are only 6 seats. Reservations are strongly encouraged.
>> REQUEST A RESERVATION BY EMAIL <<Private tastings and classes can be arranged outside public opening hours. If Google Maps sends you into the strange back alley, do not panic. There is nearby parking.
A focus on mainland Chinese and Taiwanese oolong teas. We will cover several distinctive styles of oolong (Rock, Beauty, High Mountain, Phoenix, Iron Goddess, etc)
This tasting will last approximately 3.5 hours and cost $70 per person. There will be 2 seatings, one at 12pm and another at 4pm.
A Yunnan, thus Pu'Erh and White tea centric event. It will be about 8 teas, covering the major tea styles of the region. This event will run about 3 hours and cost $60 per person.
There will be 2 seatings, one at 12pm and another at 4pm.
The Tea Cult will have a booth at the first inaugural Calgary Tea Festival. Josh will deliver a presentation on mindfulness at the event and host a limited workshop on how to brew ‘better’ tea.
The shop will be closed! Nataliya and I will be at the Usagi Jinja (Rabbit Shrine) from 11:00am until 4:00pm serving tea and telling stories. The Usagi Jinja is Alberta's only Traditional Japanese Shinto Shrine.
The address is:
5540 2 St SW, Calgary, AB T2H 0G9
This will be a guided tasting with the Gene Keys and Book of Changes (I-Ching) that takes the guests though an introspective journey while sipping teas that pair with the theme.
This event was sold out before posting, but if you have interest in such an event, please let me know via email and we can set another one up some day!
I will be speaking about tea at The Dickens pub during a monthly event called Nerd Nite. There will be a nuclear physicist and ... some other very smart person after me. I'll be the odd one out for sure. If you'd like to come see me on stage in front of what might be hundreds of people, you can get tickets through their website.
Doors open at 6:00pm, the talk starts at 7:00pm
The "Music Sommerier" series is an ambitious style of event in which tea is paired with classical and contemporary orchestral music. Guests will be taken through approximately a half hour of music and tea pairing, with no speaking or interruptions, and will be encouraged to keep their eyes closed as much as they're comfortable and 'live in the sound and fragrance'
The theme today will be Autumn, covering the tail end of a beautiful summer into the somber silence the forests create as the trees drop their leaves and enter the pregnancy of winter.
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#23 — 1420 9 Ave SE
Calgary, Alberta, Canada